Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak.

I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned.

In marked contrast to the University of Wisconsin, Biochemistry was hardly visible at Stanford in 1945, consisting of only two professors in the chemistry department.

The excitement of vitamins, nutrition and metabolism permeated the environment.

It was always assumed that I would go to college.

I have a tendency to be lucky and make the right choices based on limited information.

If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer.